Open boundaries : Jain communities and cultures in Indian history / edited by John E. Cort.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cort, John E., 1953-

Series:

SUNY series in Hindu studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jainism--History.

Jainism.

History.

India--Civilization--Jaina influences.

India.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Jain communities and cultures in Indian history

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [1998]

Summary:

Open Boundaries provides a new perspective on Jainism, one of the oldest yet least-studied of the world's living religions. Ten closely-focused studies investigate the interactions between Jains and non-Jains in South Asian society, with detailed studies of yoga, tantra, aesthetic theory, erotic poetry, theories of kingship, goddess worship, temple ritual, polemical poetry, religious women, and historiography. Viewing the Jains within a South Asian context results in a strikingly different portrait from the standard models represented in both traditional Western and Indian scholarship.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Contested Jain Identities of Self and Other / John E. Cort 1

2. Haribhadra's Analysis of Patanjala and Kula Yoga in the Yogadrstisamuccaya / Christopher Key Chapple 15

3. Becoming Gautama: Mantra and History in Svetambara Jainism / Paul Dundas 31

4. Hemacandra and Sanskrit Poetics / Gary A. Tubb 53

5. Erotic Excess and Sexual Danger in the Civakacintamani / James Ryan 67

6. Who Is a King? Jain Narratives of Kingship in Medieval Western India / John E. Cort 85

7. Sweetmeats or Corpses? Community, Conversion, and Sacred Places / Michael W. Meister 111

8. Ritual Culture and the Distinctiveness of Jainism / Lawrence A. Babb 139

9. Sramanas Against the Tamil Way: Jains as Others in Tamil Saiva Literature / Indira Viswanathan Peterson 163

10. Jain and Hindu "Religious Women" in Early Medieval Tamilnadu / Leslie C. Orr 187

11. The Story of the Disappearing Jains: Retelling the Saiva-Jain Encounter in Medieval South India / Richard H. Davis 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-255) and index.

ISBN:

079143785X

0791437868

OCLC:

37935219